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It has a
pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated
from spawn. (b) Any large fungus,
especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several
species are edible; but many are very poisonous.

2. One who rises suddenly from a low
condition in life; an upstart. Bacon.

Mush"room, a. 1.
Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom
catchup.

2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth
and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as,
mushroom cities.

Mushroom anchor, an anchor shaped like a
mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it
falls. -- Mushroom coral (Zoöl.),
any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia. --
Mushroom spawn (Bot.), the mycelium, or
primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and
manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the
mushroom.

Mush"room-head`ed (?), a. (Bot.

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